Improvement in photographic printing



diluted finite-s 13mm Ctjifiinn.

13mm Patent No. 95,892, dated OctoberglQ, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHIO PRINTING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EGBERT GUY Fowx, of Baltimore city, Baltimore county, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Art of Photography; and I do hereby declare the following to bear. full, clear, and exact description of the same;

The object of my invention relates to the production, by the use of two or more negatives, of a sharp, soft, and natural photographic print, in lights and shadows, with all the sharpness obtained bythe original process of printing with or from a single negative.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwvill proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I. produce two or more soft fac-sim'ilc negatives of the same object, which negatives are placed in con tact with each other, in such a manner as to bring the lights and shades of each negative directly opposite. They are then exposed, with the prepared paper for printing in contact-with the negative, to the suns rays, andprinted in the usual manner, which process is also applicable to solar prints.

By this process, a photographic print is produced,

which is superior to any other production, and is a'pplicable to photography in all its branches.

The lights and shadows areso softly toned and.

Witnesses;

JOHN Dnrcn, HARLOW 0. SMITH. 

